What are the Tories going to sneak past us while we’re going football crazy?
Big lie: racist Boris Johnson cropped this image to remove the references to a campaign against race-motivated hate crime, then put it out as his own expression of support for the England team. Is there any limit to the depths he’ll plumb while the England football team rides the crest of its wave.
Gary Neville nailed it after England won their Euro 2020 semi-final against Denmark: “The standard of leaders in this country the last couple of years has been poor, but looking at that man there [Gareth Southgate] – that’s everything a leader should be: respectful, humble, tell-the-truth, genuine.”
How true is this?@GNev2 spot on about leadership in this country pic.twitter.com/qHTjdz53LV
— IanHowesIsBack #FBPE #FBPA #FBPPR #TakeBackDemocra (@Taxingissues) July 7, 2021
The sentiment is exactly right, and Neville was right to use the platform he was given by the win to voice it.
Sadly, those other leaders he mentioned are almost certain to take the opportunity provided by all of us going football crazy… to try to slip something really nasty past us. See if I’m right.
And of course Boris Johnson, oily opportunist that he is, will try to jump on the bandwagon. He’ll try to associate himself with Southgate’s brilliance – and his government with that of the England team.
I say: don’t let him. We’re seeing something inspiring on the grass of Wembley. Let’s use it to demand better within the walls of Westminster.
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Julian Assange
The High Court of Justice in the United Kingdom agreed to hear the United States government’s appeal in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange but on limited grounds.
According to Stella Moris, who is Assange’s partner, the High Court rejected the efforts of the U.S. government to “second guess the magistrates’ conclusions on medical and expert evidence.” It allowed the U.S. to challenge the court’s findings on prison conditions.
The full report contains a lot more explanatory detail
https://thedissenter.org/assange-extradition-british-high-court-grants-us-a-limited-appeal/
About 20 minutes before I read this I said to my brother that I was almost hoping for England to lose because I knew what Johnson and the other slimeballs would do,i.e. imply that somehow it was because of them that we were winning and Southgate and the team would be almost an afterthought !!